Advanced Features

The Advanced tab grants you fast access to an array of advanced features, among them the Memcached memory caching system and the Varnish Cache web application accelerator, which will help you optimize your web sites and apps without having to log out of the web hosting Control Panel. Based on the hosting plan, these features are either added by default or are offered in the form of easy-to-get upgrades. InnoDB and NodeJS support is offered too.

Varnish

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also popular as an HTTP accelerator. You can install it in front of any web server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the content. Varnish Cache is very, very fast and will improve your site's loading speed. One of the important strengths of Varnish Cache is the flexibility of its domain-specific language, VCL, which permits you to choose how incoming requests should be dealt with.

Memcached

Memcached is a generic distributed memory object caching system for boosting the load speed of dynamic database-driven websites. It is used to decrease the number of times an external data source (such as a database or API) is read by caching data and objects in RAM. The Memcached distributed memory object caching system uses a two-tier architecture. The Memcached distributed memory object caching system is used by some of the most traffic-hungry sites on the Internet and is supported by popular Content Management Systems like Joomla and WordPress.

Node.js

Node.js is a platform for building highly scalable network apps. Built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime, Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking input/output model that makes it lightweight and effective, perfect for high-performance data-heavy network applications. Node.js uses Google's V8 JavaScript engine, libUV, and a number of built-in libraries.

InnoDB

InnoDB is the default storage engine for the MySQL open-source database management system. A database engine is the principal software component that a database management system uses to create, read, update and delete data from a database. Its latest release features significant improvements in efficiency, security and functionality. InnoDB offers the standard ACID transaction features, along with foreign key support. It is included as standard in most binaries distributed by MySQL AB.